Said I wanted to go for about an hour - and much to my surprise, I managed to flash three Sonoff S31s fresh out of the box and get them hooked up to Home Assistant in almost exactly an hour!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2080531626

@Taweret "Someone who knows math, please help me!"

Sure: You have 31,536,000 seconds available to you per year. Consider how you might want to use them and whether this is the best thing on which to spend them

(edit: I don't know math, that's how long a year is - that's what I get for trying to sound smart)

@neia @Taweret HAhahaha apparently I don't know math

I thought I'd make a clever snarky math joke and beefed it :blob_grinning_sweat:

@neia @Taweret I've read him too, so I should know better!

I'm normally very chill about insects and spiders and such.

But, just now, during a meeting, something touched my ankle. I thought it was a cat, so I reached down. Turns out it was a stink bug, and it crawled onto my finger.

I jumped a foot out of my chair, flung it onto my keyboard. It crawled away as I recollected myself and folks in the meeting asked me what happened. I think I'm awake now, at least.

Now I've fallen down a rabbit hole reading about stink bugs. They're mostly harmless, sneak into houses to get warm, and just stink if you squash 'em. Also not pet-able like cats. So, I will neither squash nor pet this bug.

@corbden I continually forget that they can fly! And then they do!

Trying to upload a file to my Synchronet BBS via Xmodem from my #RC2014 via the zimodem wifi card at 9600bps. It gets to packet 38 at a bit over 4k and just errors out from there, consistently over multiple tries with this one file (rogue.com)

Have tried a few other files. Some of them upload fine, others fail consistently at the same spot. I wonder what the deal is?

I can get files on & off the CF card for the #rc2014 just fine, using a FAT16 partition. But, it would be neat & nostalgic to use my own BBS as a file library for this and other old computers I have with wifi modems

@benbrown you're never alone when there are beets

@richard @paulcuth It's be neat if this thing could produce an OPML listing of all the RSS feeds from folks I follow, then I could plonk that straight into my reader

@benbe The first thing every polycule I've ever met has done is show off their household productivity software.